sunset from our hotel last night
8:20 AM: we're in the lobby of our hotel in westminster, & will be headed for a meeting in boulder shortly, then do our food shopping at whole foods & costco & head back to crestone.
while we were visiting our friend dan, we went to the recently completed aspen art museum. we saw a very beautiful show with the work of an artist we weren't aware of, alan shields. shields wanted no part of the nyc art scene, and lived on shelter island, off long island. from the ny times obit: "Mr. Shields simultaneously resembled a harpooner out of Melville and a hippie from central casting." his work is described as counterculture modernism. in another quote from the nyt: "Mr. Shields's work combined expanses of gorgeous stained color, reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler's canvases, with the humbler crafts and a Gypsy sense of portability. Mr. Shields was a Post-Minimalist, but his work had a joyful quality at odds with his many of his more cerebral contemporaries."
there were crayons in the form of rocks in the bookstore. i made some marks.
as with the acropolis museum in athens, there are spots where you can look up and see people walking above through translucent glass.